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Week 6. Descriptive Essay
{Unit 2 Descriptive essay-2.ppsx}
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Rhetorical focus
Structures of descriptive essays
– one of your family members
– the idol you like the most
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Out class: Draft revise and editing
Revise your essay 1 draft. Submit the final draft in class next Tuesday.
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{Descriptive essay-Self evaluation sheet.pdf}
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Electronic file due: 10p.m., Sunday, October. 25, 2009
Printed version due: Beginning of the class on Tuesday, October. 27, 2009

Week 6. Descriptive Essay
{Unit 2 Descriptive essay-2.ppsx}
Rhetorical focus
Structures of descriptive essays
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Writing skill
Revising and Editing
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Language skill
Using verbs, prepositional phrases, adjectives, and adverbs to add details.
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Writing task
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In class: Limited time writing
(Adopted from: 2008 NTNU English Writing Conetst)
If you had a magic digital video that can capture scenes, sounds, fragrance, and other senses input, use this digital video to record a "sensory snapshot" of
– the city in which you live
– one of your family members
– the idol you like the most
Out class: Draft revise and editing
Revise your essay 1 draft. Submit the final draft in class next Tuesday.
Electronic file due: 10p.m., Sunday, October. 25, 2009
Printed version due: Beginning of the class on Tuesday, October. 27, 2009

Week 5. Descriptive Essay
Rhetorical focus
Dscriptive essay
Writing skill
Freewriting technique: Graphic organizers
{Descriptive essay-Prewriting+Self-Review.pdf}
Language skill
To show or to tell !!
Writing task
Choose one of the following topics. Write a three-to-four-paragraph descriptive essay (200-250 words)
1. Please describe a kind of food that you like/dislike. Describe its characteristics to show reasons why you like/dislike it.
2. Please describe qualities of being a "good person". From your viewpoints, provide the detailed qualities and examples of how to be a good person.
Be very careful of naming your electronic file!!! Follow the exact naming format: :“Essay1_98765432_王大同”
Electronic file due: 10p.m., Sunday, October. 18, 2009
Printed version due: Beginning of the class on Tuesday, October. 20, 2009